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    toLowerCase</H3>
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public <A HREF="../../java/lang/String.html" title="class in java.lang">String</A> <B>toLowerCase</B>()</PRE>
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    <DD>Converts all of the characters in this <code>String</code> to lower
        case using the rules of the default locale. This is equivalent to calling
        <code>toLowerCase(Locale.getDefault())</code>.
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            <b>Note:</b> This method is locale sensitive, and may produce unexpected
            results if used for strings that are intended to be interpreted locale
            independently.
            Examples are programming language identifiers, protocol keys, and HTML
            tags.
            For instance, <code>"TITLE".toLowerCase()</code> in a Turkish locale
            returns <code>"t?tle"</code>, where '?' is the LATIN SMALL
            LETTER DOTLESS I character.
            To obtain correct results for locale insensitive strings, use
            <code>toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH)</code>.
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        <DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>the <code>String</code>, converted to lowercase.<DT><B>See Also:</B><DD><A HREF="../../java/lang/String.html#toLowerCase(java.util.Locale)"><CODE>toLowerCase(Locale)</CODE></A></DL>
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